FURTHER RETRENCHMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 155, 2 July 1888, Page 3

FURTHER RETRENCHMENT.

'r^RAKOIAL REFORM I ' , n wrtt^SASOKEB DEALS W^uSgton, this day. n rtv reported during If 8 CUrr6 n last that it *M Jf*bar flfterD ° f ih6 Colonial Treasurer, the intention .^ Coffimifctee of j,, moving to h . n ye ly t0 SaPi-ly.|to, Bp'f the Auckland W |, rV b ,of« 6 m Association, and S Polit'Cal Refoll^j r H . Atkinson cW I proved. , B, ■poform As- " D d reduce the ex pc ]ike ny ob h« be told them X theGovernmentlmd artW^^fa itter of fact those <I«ired TLw he would like to make ii ■ i^JSinofc antagonistic to them cIW that ke was J d wore fa tl gtttttlettlfln. Hebuu> country, but toeUgw hftt wheti tW/ifflhey should give figures o \, g ht to^iWZted. AH the para* tlib°ft°l,i dr[ SUt bo treated in the tfttlWto^K;™! to which he would Uuwjgf'£* statements of these «le* ai Üb'olutely erroneous, and yet personi ««w£° w" i O v er the colony as the gMUfido vrtou» ga . d thftt s . nce th W|fe 2 yomlation had increased BfT^?hev had found that the recatoation, they baa maimng department 10 s j cogfc of ?tf tht ob the £783,000- They <'St y % accepting the axiom 1- Ct the normal administrative .dedurlSfctoSt £726,000 instead of SffiS Sy "boUer, considered that S 6£lned W for a further general !iLnf£lso 000 in all Departments in, MafiaUtga a sum.as *200,00u. neie Ssie«« P Ub very well, and he might Ked the fihftrges for police, postSt«oti» Basylums, etc., mus atoUttlMi but putting thesa items mttUMMfln. the sum of £783,000. They did«»ttell tbeteaabh, but they said there aMhi to be ft reduction. They got o redaWoh'to £126, mby using this axiom dtim UAi what Were the facts ? They vJr6f»a enough in taking off the Public TOkrrafr~Eaffiattoit Departments, but M Wrin 90 to that tbey did not take off sfttffniber of othet itetos. In the first place dt&HMble aid attd lantttica were not the ■MM Charges then thftfe they are now, M tbftrfe was also tiSe Stock branch, and ptwfty- tax, and he hftd not gone fltoly into the matter at aIL Ihen ■feiltttiietvtou bankruptcy and prisons -*fl'oti '•■ to say anything of . posts or telegraphs, find he might well claim W&M for \h\9< , Then there was the SiUiiipVDepartment, the Native^ Lands Court—for there were no judges in those 4ws ; then the Mines Department and the jjtflicd, which ktter was a provincial charge, and not, borne out of the consolidated revenue. Beaides these he would mention lie trolunteers and permanent force, and IS jrniffHi; enumerate others. Now then, the pant of the matter was this: The deSrtments dealt with by the Financial ilonh Association did nbfc even cost the 26,000 which the Association said they ought to cost, but only £704,000. What sort; of foundation was that on which to rest the assertion that they could see their way to reduce the expenditure by a further. sum of £160,000 ? The ttutfi was that, without any special knowledge, gantiemon were fond ot getting together and talking. Well, they thought theykneWall about it. Then they made statements without any foundation. Taking all they had asked, the Government hid really reduced the expenditure more than the Financial Reform Association thflOghfrettsonabie, and looking at that fact, tfte House should be willing to confflner these proposals of the Government fwurably, as ne could show they were rSa&wable and riafht. ,ln moving his amendment, Mr Monk said W Bad limned, with pleasure to the explanation of the Colonial Treasurer to the estimate giyerf by the Association in AuckMd,. wfiicti Ka<J ft laudable desire to bring wltb_in the compasa of its wStMree?. They1 dealt with matters as they , ffli tnijtis, aftd ndt as the Premier wished JWSbdtild. They felt that the evil lay in , »ittlMpli()£tl()n of departments, and the Department might be taken Mrojnsiatice, and that if there was to be IWttgh tettenchment it must be in a «jwte of this kind. In the multiplication 1 *i^ffioes ft mistake was male — every '«W been followed by the establishment ,:#e Post Office. .r W Mo»s said he could not be accused of MVfiahty to this Association, which had ,* ttiwhat it could to prevent his return to M House. , They had, however, been work'ta^eatnestly and doing what they could wthe object of limiting the expenditure £th« country. Where he differed from IW: fas ihat he did not believe -" JyuWwenchiae'nt could extricate the fSW from iU difficulty. He had w JSffi >9 toe efficiency of this £233,000 of eni;' He believed it was simply , |Bus|en Bion8ion which must come into opera"onagaift if the colony was to continue in .^ir^' The atn6ut»tthey saved was too Si save by cutting down ♦k!- nes o! Public officials, but they were E e4tln X ; miaery alt round. When 2' W,™B they were eimply saving Joney which was circulating in the coun[^MMyW.y** killine the country was li*l4 j °f to. o»ey annually sent away out SraS^i u™s that>andnotthe 'BS - ClVil Service or expenses of any lm of government.